Supervision

A lonely New York teen is thrown into small-town life when she's sent to live with her grandmother; she finds solace in the friends she makes, but something is wrong: her friends are dead, and she might be too.

An eerie coming-of-age tale, about a girl who finds herself a family of ghosts.

Wait

In a small town under a spell, a child bride prays for the sheriff's gun. Iron under a bed stops a nightmare. The carousel artist can carve only birds. Part fairy tale, part gothic ballad: on the outskirts of town, someone new is waiting.

...riveting, almost gothic ferocity. The universe of Wait crackles, burns brightly, while also leading into a darkness of its own. The collection is impressive not just for its immense formal grace, but also for the adamant, forceful desire—its ‘call of skin’—that singes through every poem.”

Ohio Violence

University of North Texas Press, 2009Vassar Miller Prize Winner, selected by Eric Panky

In the fields, in the woods, in the dark waters of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, turn on each other. Men watch from the rear view as the narrator hedges, changes her mind, won't tell, then shows all in this break-out collection of bittersweet and cataclysmic lyrics.